Sandra Morán

Sandra Morán Reyes
Morán in 2018
Former Member of the Congress of Guatemala
In office
14 January 2016 – 14 January 2020
ConstituencyGuatemala District
Personal details
Born (1960-04-29) 29 April 1960

Sandra Morán Reyes (born 29 April 1960) is a Guatemalan politician who served as deputy of the Congress of Guatemala from 2016 to 2020, following her electoral win in the 2015 general election.[1] A member of the now-defunct Convergence party, she is noted as the first out LGBT person ever elected to the national legislature in Guatemala.[1][2][3][4]

On 21 May 2019, she confirmed that she would not run for re-election.[5]

Life

Morán joined Guatemala's human rights movement in high school when she was fourteen years old. She was active in music, playing in the band Kin Lalat in the 1980s.[3][4]

She previously lived in exile in Mexico, Nicaragua, and Canada between 1981 and 1994.[1]

A longtime LGBT and feminist activist and artist,[1][3] she was an organizer of Guatemala's first lesbian group in 1995 and its first LGBT pride event in 1998.[2][3][4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Sandra Morán, una feminista en el Congreso" Archived 2024-11-03 at the Wayback Machine. Plaza Pública, September 16, 2015.
  2. 1 2 "First openly LGBTI person voted into Guatemalan congress". Latin Correspondent, November 30, 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "during the 1980s became involved with Guatemala's renowned rebel band Kin Lalat." Archived 2025-03-28 at the Wayback Machine. Behind the Lines, February 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 "for the LGBT community to have a representative." Archived 2024-11-07 at the Wayback Machine. Nobel Women's Initiative, December 9, 2016.
  5. ↑ Publinews, Por (May 21, 2019). "Diputada Sandra Morán confirma que no busca su reelección". Publinews. Archived from the original on January 20, 2025. Retrieved July 13, 2019.
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